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How to read Home in Crawlbench

Use coverage, trends and your searches on Home to know whether your team is catching listings or needs to act.

The dashboard answers: are my monitors catching Marketplace inventory? Scan coverage, then match volume, then open the monitor that needs triage.

Ignore infrastructure labels. Customer views talk about coverage and catching up, not timeouts or rate limits.

Open the dashboard after login

After sign-in, Dashboard is the home desk. Each card is a monitor with coverage, recent matches, and a path into the queue.

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Crawlbench dashboard showing monitor cards
What to noticeCoverage and trends answer whether the desk is catching listings or needs attention.

Coverage status means "am I missing scans?"

Coverage compares recent successful check waves to your plan's scan interval. Healthy means checks are landing. Catching up means the platform is behind and you should not panic-edit filters.

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Monitor coverage status on a dashboard card
What to noticeCoverage status is about missed scan cycles, not raw timeout labels.

If coverage stays unhealthy while filters are unchanged, check plan fetch caps and city load before you rewrite the buy box.

Trend is match volume, not a health alarm

The short trend on a card is about how many matches you saw recently. Flat or down can mean a quiet market. It is not a red failure state by itself.

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Match volume trend on a Crawlbench monitor card
What to noticeThe 24h trend is match volume, not a health grade. Flat can still mean a clean queue.

Drill into a monitor for Market Snapshot

Open a monitor for Market Snapshot when you want Facebook asking-price comps for that buy box: median, bands, and volume from listings Crawlbench has seen. Use Matches when you only need to message a seller. Snapshot is not sold-comp profit AI; it is the comps / assessment surface for the monitored market.

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Monitor detail page with Market Snapshot context
What to noticeOpen a monitor card when one lane looks quiet while peers stay healthy.

Dashboard signal cards (Spike, Hot, Silent, Focus) are triage attention, not profit scoring. For price assessment, open Snapshot on the monitor.

A 30-second dashboard ritual

  1. Scan every card for coverage language
  2. Open any monitor with new matches
  3. Triage the match queue (next guide)
  4. Open Market Snapshot before chasing an ask that looks too good
  5. Leave filter edits for a weekly review, not every quiet hour
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